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Posted: Oct 13 2008 07:28 pm

The Island or Brave New World. I was on a Huxley kick in high school.

Posted: Oct 13 2008 08:08 pm

I remember reading Ender's Game, Romeo and Juliet, Who Has Seen The Wind, MacBeth, and some other book in English 12 I can't remember. During high school I read Slaughterhouse 5, The Dirt, Lord of The Rings, and The Life and Death of Superman on my own.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

My Brother Sam is Dead by James Collier.

Joined: Oct 08 2008 Posts: 9

Fallen angles
Parinoid Park

Posted: Oct 15 2008 05:17 pm

ross_rifle113 wrote:

I remember reading Ender's Game, Romeo and Juliet, Who Has Seen The Wind, MacBeth, and some other book in English 12 I can't remember. During high school I read Slaughterhouse 5, The Dirt, Lord of The Rings, and The Life and Death of Superman on my own.

Really?! All by yourself? That's CrAzInEsS!!!1!, I realize you probably meant "for fun" but I couldn't resist. Smile

Posted: Oct 15 2008 08:04 pm

So far my favorite has been Dearly Devoted Dexter. It has the best first-person narration I've ever read - I mean, seeing the story from the mindset of a serial killer that only kills other serial killers? How could that not be interesting?

Posted: Oct 16 2008 01:32 am

Good one Douche

Posted: Oct 17 2008 01:05 am

Probably, The Outsiders.

Posted: Oct 17 2008 01:10 am

Mr. Grimes wrote:

Great Gatsby, hands down.

Hey, I'm an English/Ed. major. That's why I started this thread.

My favorite books i actually just finished reading, and they were both required reading.

the first - in grade ten - 1984 by george orwell, fuckin fantastic plus im a conspiracy nut so 1984 was a no brainer

and just last year - Catcher in the rye, i thought it was gonna be stupid but i was pleasently surprised and really enjoyed it.

Posted: Oct 27 2008 06:15 am

1984 or Animal Farm. My English teacher based pretty much all of our coursework around George Orwell or HG Wells because they were his two most favorite authors.

Joined: Sep 22 2008 Posts: 289

Dracula and The Outsiders. Great friggin' books.

We were supposed to read Gatsby, but we didn't have enough time, so we watched the movie. I liked it, so I might have to read the book now.

On the other hand, I fucking HATED The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It was just a depressing, shitty story, and entirely abandoned plot at the end in favor of socialist propaganda.

Also, The Scarlet Letter wasn't a bad story, but I just can't read an entire novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I loved his short story The Minister's Black Veil, but I can't go through a whole novel in that writing style.

Posted: Nov 05 2008 11:47 pm

fuck the great gatsby.

and i actually enjoyed the Jungle, but i do agree it did abandon plot progression.

Joined: Dec 05 2008 Posts: 32

Does it have to have been required reading?

If not, i basically ignored all of 10th grade history to read Lord of the Rings during class.

Actually, scratch that, Stephen King's IT, as the book i did a report on. BY FAR the best book i have ever read.

Posted: Dec 06 2008 10:19 am

The dictionary. Turns out the zebra did it.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Dec 06 2008 05:31 pm

Let's see, my faves were The Giver, Ordinary People, The Terminal Man, Misery, and One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. I got halfway into the Tommyknockers and it was far better than the movie of the same name. Of Mice and Men was pretty good too. Oh yeah, To kill a mockingbird was a pretty good read too. I wasn't that into Shakespeare back then so R&J and Julius Caesar were a bit flaky, but now I understand Shakespeare a lot better than I did back then. I really should reread some of these books.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest was damn good, a lot better than anything else Kesey ever did, including Sometimes a Great Notion, and just tripping balls and his liberal jibber jabber.

RIP though.

Joined: Dec 06 2008 Location: Pearland, TX Posts: 88

I don't know who's read this, but I'm all for The Giver. I couldn't put that bitch down.

Posted: Dec 19 2008 10:22 pm

Flowers for Algernon. It may be sci-fi, but what a story. Presents an interesting dichotomy to ponder.

In my final year, we were to select two novels for 'independent study.' Why the flying fuck did I ever choose Memoirs of a Geisha?

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

To be honest, I never read a book in high school to completion.

I read a lot of A Wrinkle In Time, but only enough to pass tests. I didn't even fully read The Lord of The Flies. That one I wish I had fully read.

Posted: Dec 22 2008 01:37 am

First:

The Hobbit in my freshman year. Well actually the teacher read it to us for some reason, but still first book my class had to study.

Last:

The Godfather. In my senior year English class we each got to pick a book to read from a huge list. II choose The Godfather.

Posted: Dec 28 2008 11:14 pm

Required reading: The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Of everything I read in High School: Either Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or a book called King Leopold's Ghost. The latter is a history of European imperialism in central Africa. Great read, still one of my favorites.

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

The read The Lord of the Rings trilogy in high school on my own. The Hobbit at some point during that time, but after.

I've never finished a book for a grade during my high school years.

Posted: Dec 30 2008 01:10 am

There's an extremely long list of Modern Classics, and last semester I had to read American Psycho. An extremely satisfying read, although some of the stuff in there is just downright f-ed up (imagine what someone can do with a rat, a vacuum tube, hydrochloric acid, and...a vagina. Sad

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So far it is the manga d'gray man

Enders game was a book I really liked

Posted: Jan 07 2009 04:17 am

I hated Ender's Game personally. I thought it was just kinda meh.